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BOARD of DIRECTORS
PRISCILLA C. HORST (Chairman)
Born and raised in Rhode Island, Priscilla Horst graduated with a double major in Speech Therapy and Social Work from Elmira College and earned a master's degree in Speech Pathology and Audiology from Case Western Reserve University. She was employed as a speech therapist in both public and private schools in Ohio and Rhode Island. While in the employ of the Chagrin Falls Schools in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, she developed and implemented a speech therapy program at Saint Joan of Arc School.
After the birth of her children she chose to be active in the community on a volunteer basis. She has served on various boards and committees of the Junior Committee of the Cleveland Orchestra, the Shaker Heights Parent Teacher Association, the Senior Adult Office of the City of Shaker Heights, the Shaker Lakes Regional Nature Center and the Women's Committee of the Cleveland Institute of Music.
While she has no formal music training, music has been a lifelong interest. In her youth she sang in her church, high school and college choirs. She also played the hand bells for many years. She is an active "Friend" of Lyric Opera Cleveland, and since 1998, together with her family, has served as "second family" to a very talented Indonesian piano student.
Priscilla's interests include tennis, bicycling, gardening, music, travel and, most of all, family. She is married to J. Robert Horst who was Vice President and General Counsel of Eaton Corporation until he retired in 2005. They have two daughters, Sarah who has her own jewelry business in Rhode Island, and Rebecca who is a practicing lawyer in Cleveland, Ohio.
BARBARA H. GORDON
Barbara Gordon grew up in central Indiana and graduated from the School of Business at Indiana University. Organizational skills have served Barbara well; she has been able to manage her family of five (husband and three daughters) while serving as a community volunteer. Barbara's volunteer service and professional efforts focused on schools, Girl Scouts and church when her daughters were young. She also served as a deacon for Fairmount Presbyterian Church.
Barbara served Phi Mu Sorority in many capacities, including being a delegate to Cleveland Panhellenic Association for 10 ½ years. She progressed through the chairs as treasurer, secretary and president.
Art has always been a strong interest for Barbara and in 1986 she was asked to join the board of trustees of Young Audiences where she served three terms (9 years). Barbara served two years as chairman of the board of trustees and also one year concurrently as interim executive director.
Museums have also been important to Barbara. She has worked 5 ½ years at the Cleveland Children's Museum. Since 1991 she continues to volunteer in the shop at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
EILEEN MARTIN
Personal Details:
Married to Liam - three children - Neal (21), Enda (17) and Maeve (15)
Education:
1955 - 1964..... F.C.J. Primary School, Bunclody
1964 - 1969..... F.C.J. Secondary School, Bunclody
Employment:
1969 - 1973.....Secretary to the Management of Bunclody Farmers' Co-Op.
1973 - 1977.....Secretary to the director of the Diocesan Youth Service
1977 - 1978.....School Secretary at F.C.J. Bunclody (part-time)
1978 to date....School Secretary at F.C.J. Bunclody (full-time)
EDWARD A. MEARNS, Jr.
Professor Mearns is Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University, and Dean of the Faculty of The World Law Institute. He has been Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. He has also served as Vice-president for Academic Affairs at Case Western Reserve and Vice Dean of its School of Medicine.
His teaching and writing have been primarily in Civil Rights. During the seventies, he was the court-appointed expert in the Cleveland school desegregation suit. His teaching areas include Constitutional Law, Torts, European Union Law, Science and Medicine, and the Global Economy and Human Values. He has been a Visiting Professor of American Law at the Universities of Rome and Messina (Italy), and more recently been a Visiting Professor at Central European University (Budapest, Hungary), and a Lecturer at the Universities of Milan (Italy), Turin (Italy), Volgograd (Russian Federation), Rijeka (Croatia), Zagreb (Croatia), Fribourg (Switzerland), and Sarajevo (Bosnia-Hertzegovina).
Professor Mearns is married to Patricia Simpson Mearns, a former two-term Mayor of Shaker Heights, Ohio. They recently celebrated their 50th Anniversary. They have nine children and 31 grandchildren. Professor Mearns holds a B.S. from Yale University and LL.B. from the University of Virginia.
EMILY TIDBALL
Emily Tidball is the Secretary of the Fund. After graduating from Hiram College, she earned a Master's Degree in Library Science from Kent State University and worked for four years as the Visual Resources and Reference Librarian at the Cleveland Institute of Art, an nationally ranked independent college of art and design. She then attended Case Western Reserve University where she received her law degree. While attending law school, she participated in the Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic Center, and worked with several nonprofit organizations on a variety of legal issues. She was also the Vice-President of the Student Public Interest Law Foundation, a nonprofit student organization that provides funding for law students who choose to pursue legal work in the public interest. Additionally, while at Case Western Reserve University, she also earned a Master's Degree in Nonprofit Organizations, a course of study specializing in the management and administration of nonprofit and tax exempt organizations. She currently works as an attorney in Cleveland, Ohio.
PRISCILLA C. HORST - Executive Director
EDWARD A. MEARNS, Jr. - Assistant Executive Director
EMILY TIDBALL - Secretary
BARBARA H. GORDON - Treasurer
EILEEN MARTIN - Assistant Treasurer
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Member of the Board of Management of St. Ibar's Primary School, Clohamon -
six years
Secretary of the Parents' Council of St. Ibar's - three years
Administrator of F.C.J. Band since 1984
Production Manager for "No Strings Attached", F.C.J. Band album
Tour Manager for Band trips & concerts in Dublin, Belfast, Limerick, etc.
in Ireland, and to London (1993) and United States (1995 & 2001)
Administrator of F.C.J. Bunclody musical productions
Assistant for past 12 years with The Irish Times/R.T.E. "Music in the
Classroom" concerts, books & tapes for schools
Steering Committee member of the Anthony Kearns Music Fund
The Martins
The F.C.J. Band
Music & Reading
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PRISCILLA C. HORST (Chairman)
BARBARA H. GORDON
EILEEN MARTIN
EDWARD A. MEARNS, Jr.
EMILY TIDBALL
